Chancellorsville, 1863 : the souls of the brave by Ernest B Furgurson(
Book
)10
editions published
between
1992
and
1996
in
English
and held by
1,437 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Account of the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863 combining military analysis and eyewitness narratives

Not war but murder : Cold Harbor, 1864 by Ernest B Furgurson(
Book
)11
editions published
between
2000
and
2013
in
English
and held by
1,065 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"On the morning of Friday, June 3, 1864, Generals Ulysses S. Grant and George G. Meade brought their overland campaign against
Richmond to its climax in an all-out assault on Robert E. Lee's entrenched rebels at Cold Harbor, less than ten miles outside
the Confederate capital. The result was out-right slaughter -- Grant's worst defeat, and Lee's last great victory. Though
Grant tried afterward to forget the battle, and historians have often misunderstood its importance, Cold Harbor remains what
Bruce Catton called 'one of the hard and terrible names of the Civil War, perhaps the most terrible of all'". --from fly leaf

Ashes of glory : Richmond at war by Ernest B Furgurson(
Book
)7
editions published
between
1996
and
1997
in
English
and held by
1,038 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Stunned and battered, once-glamorous society virtually inside out

Hard right : the rise of Jesse Helms by Ernest B Furgurson(
Book
)8
editions published
between
1968
and
1986
in
English
and held by
856 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina, point man for the fundamentalist New Right and proprietor of a vast, national fund-raising
machine created to batter liberal candidates, may exert more influence over the future of U.S. politics than even Ronald Reagan
himself. In this first full-length, unauthorized study of Helms, the Washington bureau chief of the Baltimore Sun follows
him through his early career as a TV commentator battling against civil rights and social change to his current role as the
driving force behind the Republican right."--Book Jacket

Freedom rising : Washington in the Civil War by Ernest B Furgurson(
Book
)9
editions published
between
2004
and
2013
in
English
and held by
848 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Freedom Rising is a fresh, intensely human account of how the Civil War transformed the nation's capital from the debating
forum for a loose union of states into the seat of a forceful central government. Before 1861, Washington was a dusty, muddy
city of 60,000, joked about by urban sophisticates from New York and Boston. But at the onset of war, thousands of soldiers,
job seekers, nurses, good-time girls, gamblers, newly freed slaves-all kinds of Americans-poured in. For days, Washington
was cut off from the North, and no one was sure whether it would become the capital of the Union or the Confederacy. Ernest
Furgurson tells the story through the men and women who brought the city to rambunctious life. He re-creates historic figures
such as William Seward, who fancied himself Abraham Lincoln's prime minister; poet Walt Whitman, who nursed the wounded; detective
Allan Pinkerton, who tracked down Southern sympathizers. He introduces intriguing others, such as Mayor James Berret, arrested
for disloyalty; architect Thomas Walter, striving to finish the Capitol dome in the middle of war; accused Confederate spy
Antonia Ford, romancing her captor; and Union Major Joseph Willard, operator of the capital's premier hotel. Here is Mary
Lincoln, mourning the death of her son Willie, seeking solace from fakers who conducted séances in the White House. And here
is the president-in all his compassion, determination, and complexity-inspiring the nation, wrangling with generals, pardoning
deserters, and barely escaping death on the ramparts of Fort Stevens as Jubal Early's Southern army invades the outskirts
of Washington and fights the Union Army within five miles of the White House. For four years, the city was awash in drama
and sometimes comedy, until the assassination of Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth became the tragedy of the century. By the time
the grand two-day victory parade of 150,000 troops surged along Pennsylvania Avenue, the men and women who had arrived in
such great numbers at the start of the war had made Washington a capital to be reckoned with throughout the world. Freedom
Rising is an invaluable aid to understanding the making of America

Covering the South. National Symposium on the Media and the Civil Rights Movement, April 3-5, 1987(
Visual
)1
edition published
in
1987
in
English
and held by
2 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
The last of six panel discussions by print and television journalists who do an in-depth examination of how coverage by the
news media influenced the Civil Rights Movement and the historical revolution it spawned. Many personal anecdotes are related
by Caucasian and Afro-American journalists of their experiences covering the movement including becoming targets of threats
and violence. This panel examines the current issues of civil rights, what has changed and what has not changed; issues which
have become much more complex in the ensuing 25 years

Ashes of Glory Richmond at War by Ernest B Furgurson(
Recording
)1
edition published
in
2008
in
English
and held by
2 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
On the day the first shots of the Civil War were fired, a mob in Richmond clambered on top of the Capitol to raise the Confederate
flag. Four years later, another flag was raised in its place while the city burned below. A thirteen-year-old girl compared
the stars and stripes to "so many bloody gashes." This ... book brings to life the years in which Richmond was the symbol
of Southern independence and the theater for a drama as splendid, sordid, and tragic as the war itself. Drawing on an array
of archival sources, [the book] portrays Richmond's passion through the voices of soldiers and statesmen, preachers and prostitutes,
slaves and slavers.-Back cover

Freedom rising : Washington in the Civil War by Ernest B Furgurson(
Recording
)1
edition published
in
2005
in
English
and held by
1 WorldCat member
library
worldwide
[This] is [an] account of how the Civil War transformed the nation's capital from the debating forum for a loose union of
states into the seat of a forceful central government. [The author] tells the story through the men and women who brought
the city to rambunctious life.-Dust jacket